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GROUNDS TEAM OF THE SEASON
Sponsor Calibra Tree Surgeons
Luke Howroyd and Mark Lemm are up for a Berkshire Football Award in the category of Grounds Team of the Season sponsored by Calibra Tree Surgeons.
A brand new category for 2025 as we look to celebrate the carpets you play on week in week out, and the men and women that provide them. First up, we head to West Berkshire and Reading YMCA.
One nomination for the award said: “Both Luke and Mark have full time jobs but despite limited time, finances and equipment they are able to consistently produce a surface that is at a very high standard.
“Mark and Luke spend many hours at weekends and after work in the evening preparing the pitch and their dedication is beyond the call of duty.”
Another added: “Mark and Luke put in a lot of time and effort in creating what we think is the best private step 7 pitch in the area. Mark spends hours going around replacing divots and repairing the pitch along with regularly marking the lines. He does the dirty work whereas Luke gets a lot of credit due to the cutting and look of the pitch.”
Speaking to Football in Berkshire, Luke said: “Whilst I do take a lot of time out of the week to make it look and play well it takes both of us to make the best surface we can do as volunteers and on a small budget.”
Agree that Luke Howroyd and Mark Lemm should be up for the Grounds Team of the Season award? Or do you have someone else in mind? Let us know in the nomination form below:
Yes! The awards are taking place at the marvellous Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading and we’ll have food available. Tickets will be limited but on sale from 28th May. If you’d like to know when, so you don’t miss out, make sure you’ve signed up to our email newsletter here.
Scroll down to the bottom of this article for the nomination form. Before you do that though, here’s what the judging panel are looking for when choosing the shortlist.
What’s the story? Tell us exactly why the person or place should be considered. We hate to get all ‘X Factor journey’ on you but the more detail you can include, the better we can argue for your nominee for the short list.
The sort of details we love to see include things like player awards, goals, clean sheets and any other significant contributions to the footballing community – obviously within the 2024/25 season.
We’ll publish all the nominees for the Berkshire Football Awards as we receive them.
You can view all the 2025 nominees so far here.
Want to know who’s previously won what at the Berkshire Football Awards? There’s a big long page with all the previous winners here.
Nominations will be open until midday on Monday 26th May 2025.
The Long List will be published on Wednesday 28th May and the Short List on Friday 30th May.
Once the nomination window has closed, the nominations in each category will be put before a panel of judges for a decision, the top four announced online and the winners at the awards night on Wednesday 18th June.
We will accept nominations for people out of area, the only prerequisite is that the reason for nomination is that it must be because of an affiliation with a club we cover on Football in Berkshire (a full list is at the bottom of this page). We will present certificates and a trophy to the winners.
What’s next? Look out for the Long List of all the nominations which will be published here and across all our channels by midday on Wednesday 28th May 2025.
The Short List for each category will then be published at 2pm on Friday 30th May 2025. At that point, tickets will be made available to attend the awards night at Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading on the evening of Wednesday 18th June 2025. If you’d like notification of when tickets are available, sign up to our newsletter here.
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